Evaluation of laser diffraction analysis of particle size distribution of typical soils in China and comparison with the sieve-pipette method

Soil Science

Volumn 178, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 194-204

  Wang, Wei Peng ^a,b   Liu, Jian Li ^a,b   Zhang, Jia Bao ^a   Li, Xiao Peng ^a,b   Cheng, Ya Nan ^a,b   Xin, Wen Wen ^a,b   Yan, Yi Fan ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOIL SCIENCE   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Laser diffraction method; particle size distribution; sieve pipette method

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFRACTION; LASER; MIE THEORY; PARTICLE SIZE; SIEVING; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL ANALYSIS;

CHINA;

EID: 84879971403     PISSN: 0038075X     EISSN: 15389243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SS.0b013e31829908be     Document Type: Article

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